Avro 641 Commodore

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Type 641
Commadore
Four/five-seat touring cabin biplane. The fuselage a welded steel box structure, shaped with wooden formers and stringers, the whole being fabric covered. The equal-span, single-bay wings were fabric covered and of all metal construction, heavily staggered such that the upper mainplane rear spar was directly above the lower mainplane front spar, with spars formed from corrugated, light steel strips and one-piece light alloy ribs, wire braced and supported on narrow chord N-type interplane struts. and a stout, faired, tubular metal strut replaced the landing wires. Fuel tanks were located in the upper wing roots between the spars. Frise-type ailerons were fitted on the lower mainplanes only. The split undercarriage was faired and spatted. The roomy cabin, accessed via a door on the port side, was well glased, including a glased roof panel. One 215 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IVC powerplant in a long chord NACA cowling.

C/n	Initial Registration	Notes
6 aircraft built by A.V. Roe and Co. Ltd., Failsworth, Manchester, in 1934.
691	G-ACNT	Built to Works Order 14679. To W.R. Westhead, Heston Aerodrome, Heston, Middlesex.
700	G-ACRX	Built to Works Order 15176. To the Earl of Amherst. To Egypt in 1936 as SU-AAS.
721	G-ACUA	Built to Works Order 15845. To Airwork Ltd, Heston. To Egypt in 1936 as SU-AAU.
722	G-ACUG	Built to Works Order 15320. To Major J.E. Durrant-Shaw, Kirbymoorside. Impressed as DJ710 under file B.50801/39.
729	G-ACZB	Built to Works Order 15858. To Henlys Ltd as demonstrator. To Sir WG Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd in 1936. Impressed as HH979.
759	VT-AFN	Built to Works Order 15580. To HH The Maharajah of Vizianagram, Madras.
Total Production 6